Olmsted News

The architect and urban planner Daniel H. Burnham was born in New York in 1846. His family moved to Chicago when he was a child and it was there he grew up.

The Plane and It's Crew! This past Saturday in Olmsted, Illinois, the calm of a peaceful Autumn evening was briefly shattered by the high-pitched whine of a tiny model airplane engine.

Eligible faculty and senior staff will be invited to submit an online "expression of interest" in buying Olmsted Terrace houses starting at 8 a.m. on Nov.

America's inland waterway systems are crumbling. Vital to the economy and our way of life, America's locks, dams and shipping lanes are in disrepair, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working to replace the system.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky promises to do everything he can to secure federal money to finish the new locks and dam project at Olmsted.